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(Across from the U of O Bookstore)
Store’s business is books
By Julie Freeman
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Stacked on the back shelves
of the University Bookstore’s se
cond floor, textbooks contain
ing everything from
Shakespeare's greatest works to
Spanish lessons may seem to be
Just another necessary task the
Bookstore must attend to at the
beginning of each term.
But while greeting cards and
computers rather than books on
chemistry or calculus occupy
space on the main level of the
building, textbooks represent
almost 40 percent of the
Bookstore's business and re
main one of of its central year
round concerns
“They are one of our very
basic responsibilities." says Jim
Williams, bookstore general
manager.
In fact, one of the main
reasons the Bookstore deals
with merchandise such as
calendars and coffee mugs is so
it can subsidize the sale of its
books, which lose money for the
bookstore annually.
Unlike many independent,
coliege-based operations, the
Bookstore discounts its books
by 10 percent for the Univer
sity's faculty, staff and
students, last year, for in
stance, it discounted $300,000
worth of book costs for its
customers.
Ironically, however, it is the
store’s book prices and abun
dance of commercial items that
subject the Bookstore to its most
frequent criticism, Williams
says.
"Books are somewhat of a
unique commodity,” he says.
“But one of the consistent goals
of the Bookstore has been to
provide students with their
books on time and at the lowest
possible cost."
Besides offering discounts to
meet this goal, the Bookstore
recently has developed its own
computer system to improve its
ordering process and provide
students with more lower
priced used books,
Despite this competitive ap
proach to book sales, Williams
does not believe the Bookstore
is in direct competition with
other bookstores in the area,
such as the Smith Family
Bookstore, which deals mainly
in used books.
“One of the main distinctions
between us and other
bookstores is that we have an
obligation to have all texts
available on time for University
classes." Williams says. "We
don’t have the option of order
ing whenever we want."
Ordering the correct number
of new and used books for a cer
tain course is another dif
ference. says Chris Standish.
the Bookstore’s course book
manager.
"A lot of people complain
when there are shortages of a
certain book, but usually there
are many more cases of overages
than outages each term. And
everything that is bought can
not be sold back to the
publisher.” Standish says.
The Bookstore also offers a
two-fold buyback policy for
books. The first policy offers,
students with their receipts a
full refund for course books that' .
are returned within three weeks
after each term starts. The other
policy provides a year-round
buyback, based on the store’s
needs and a national
wholesaler's demand.
Students can expect to get
back about SO percent of what a
course book sold for new when
they sell it back to„ the
Bookstore, Standish says: But a
slightly lower price is paid for
books that are not used by the
University and are sold to a
wholesaler.
"(kitting books back from
students Is the best way to get
used books on the shelf," Stan
dish says.
V . . ..
Used books provide a benefit;
. for the student, who pays only
three^fourths of the new book
price and can then sell it hack
for more than half, of what they •
paid at the bookstore.
The faculty is asked to make .
book orders lhe second week of
each term This way, the •
Bookstore can figure out bow
many new and used texts it
must order, and what titles ,can .
be placed on. the half-priced '
buvback lists, Sttindish says.
There-still are problem's to be
..worked out with the ordering
process- and. the. buyback-'
system, but Williams says 'he
believes the. Bookstore is.doing.
■ the bast job it can.
"The reality, is that students
want relief from high . book
prices, and we're trying hard to
gi$e it to them.-" he says. • •
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